Download or read book Bass Player s Guide To Pentatonics written by Janek Gwizdala and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCLUDES FEATURE LENGTH VIDEO MASTERCLASS AND AUDIO PLAY-ALONGS.Bass Player's Guide to Pentatonics harnesses the power of the pentatonic scale for bass players of all genres and abilities. Presented in four parts, this book takes you on a journey of pentatonics through their endless and amazing uses: learn the most useful scale fingerings, how to solo on "Giant Steps," master funky bass lines and fills, and expand your ear to create innovative melodies and solos. The pentatonic ideas in this book transcend genre boundary, and are guaranteed to add something new to your playing.And for the first time ever: along with the standard complete video master-class that provides a deeper understanding of book's content, we're including highly polished play-alongs that will allow you to put all of these concepts into action immediately. If you want to improve every aspect of your bass playing today, Bass Player's Guide to Pentatonics is your answer.
Download or read book Bass Player s Guide to Looping written by Janek Gwizdala and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bass Player's Guide to Looping: A Comprehensive Method to Pedal Looping on Bass [OVER 2.5 HOURS OF VIDEO INCLUDED]Bass Player's Guide to Looping is the definitive method to mastering the art of live-looping with the electric bass. Join world-renowned bassist Janek Gwizdala as he reveals every single detail of his signal chain--including illustrated pedal settings, tips on effects and gear, and proper looping techniques--giving you an endless array of tools to practice, compose, and perform live as a true artist. Whether you've used a loop pedal for years or just purchased your first one, Bass Player's Guide to Looping will help you to become the best looping bassist you can be.With purchase of this book, you also gain access to over 2.5 hours of video instruction. These videos include in-depth explanations and performances of every concept in the book, bonus footage of techniques used in solo bass performance, and live footage of looping with both a drummer in a duo setting as well as with a live band.
Download or read book Bass Player s Guide To Altered Chords Scales written by Janek Gwizdala and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The altered scale is often regarded as one of the most complex, intimidating sounds in modern jazz vocabulary, seemingly creating a barrier to entry for many aspiring musicians. Fear no more: Bass Player's Guide to Altered Chords and Scales is your key to open that door. Inside you'll learn how to play the altered scale, how to create your own vocabulary through the building blocks of melodic minor, how to get started with over 60 prewritten licks--and, most importantly, you'll learn when and where to play your new altered ideas through any sequence of chord changes, so you can immediately apply this information to you playing. Bass Player's Guide to Altered leaves no stone unturned, providing you with all of the tools, knowledge, and confidence to become a master of the altered sound. Along with a complete video master-class that provides a deeper understanding of the book's content, we're including highly polished play-alongs that will allow you to put all of these concepts into action immediately. The book also comes complete with TAB for each exercise in every key.
Download or read book Bass Player s Guide to Sight Reading written by Janek Gwizdala and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bass Player's Guide to Sight-Reading is the answer to one of the most universal hurdles faced by bassists today: becoming an expert at reading music notation. The guide is truly comprehensive through your entire journey with reading: while page one's whole and half notes may seem elementary, the final page would challenge even the world's best sight-readers. The process covers all the bases of mastering the most essential pitches and rhythms, constructing an unshakeable foundation on which to build things like sixteenth-note syncopation, odd time signatures, and even feeling comfortable reading bass melodies in treble clef. Along with a complete video master-class that provides a deeper understanding of the book's content, we're including highly polished play-alongs that will allow you to put all of these concepts into action immediately. Open your world to new opportunities, new music, and new gigs as you finally become the reader you've always dreamed to be with Bass Player's Guide to Sight-Reading.
Download or read book Beyond Pentatonics written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid foundation from which to expand their harmonic awareness. If you play rock, blues and even jazz, you’ll be using pentatonic scales for the rest of your life, so there’s no need to discard them! In this book, we’ll be using the much-loved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This means that when you go to improvise, you'll have a vast array of options with which to go beyond pentatonic soloing. Work through this book daily and I guarantee you a smooth and painless transition from pentatonics to incorporating modes and arpeggios into your playing.
Download or read book From Practice to Performance written by Janek Gwizdala and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every bassist practices things like warm-ups, exercises, and new vocabulary. But how do you translate these concepts and techniques into your playing? From Practice to Performance will guide you through a tried-and-true process of transforming the elements of your practice routine into real, inspired music. The book is split into two parts: the first includes 30 exercises in all twelve keys, plus an in-depth look at how to construct a productive practice schedule utilizing this new vocabulary. Part Two puts these exercises into context, explaining precisely how to use them over various chord changes, with harmonic analysis and specialized tips from world-renowned bassist Janek Gwizdala. From Practice to Performance will not only transform your technique, your vocabulary, and how you practice, but it will revolutionize how effectively you can turn your hard work into real results as a performer. Along with a complete video master-class that provides a deeper understanding of the book's content, we're including highly polished play-alongs that will allow you to put all of these concepts into action immediately. The book also comes complete with TAB for each exercise in every key.
Download or read book Stuff Good Bass Players Should Know written by Glenn Letsch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instruction and tips on performing, recording, equipment, theory, and techniques of playing the bass guitar.
Download or read book Music Theory for the Bass Player written by Ariane Cap and published by CapCat Music Media. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician. Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook. This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions! Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players? Do you know lots of songs, but don't know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody? If so, this is the book for you! • Starting with intervals as music's basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony. • Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches. • Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing and chops. • You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music (reading music is of course a vital skill, yet, the author believes it should not be tackled at the same time as the study of music theory, as they are different skills with a different practicing requirement. Reading becomes much easier once theory is mastered and learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams and patterns as illustrations, music theory is very accessible, immediately usable and fun. This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} This book and the 89 free videos stand on their own and form a thorough source for studying music theory for the bass player. If you'd like to take it a step further, the author also offers a corresponding 20 week course; this online course works with the materials in this book and practices music theory application in grooves, fills and solos. Information is on the author's blog.
Download or read book The Bass Player s Guide to Scales and Modes written by Stuart Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bass Player's Guide to Scales and Modes is a complete reference manual for all of the scales, modes and arpeggios used by the modern bass guitarist. Contains exercises that illustrate each scale and concept. Accompanying audio files are available as a free download from the site.
Download or read book Pentatonic Scale Workbook for Bass Guitar written by Alexander Badiarov and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excercise and reference book you can use in your regular practise routine to play each of the 12 pentatonic scales on the entire fingerboard. In each position you'll be given a simple way to play the major and minor pentatonic scale up and down in the respective key. Use it as a warm-up/technique or theory exercise and to familiarize yourself with perhaps the most fundamental of all scales. ✓ standard notation, tabulature & scale diagrams
Download or read book Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass written by Janek Gwizdala and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass: ii-V-I is the first definitive book of its kind: explaining, exploring, and creating jazz harmony and improvisation from the perspective of a world-renowned bassist. The book begins at the heart of basic vocabulary in the jazz idiom, building a concrete foundation of confidence in "making the changes," before guiding through every step of the process to more fresh and complex interpretations of the altered scale, unexpected tonal centers, and innovative chord structure. This book will strengthen your technique, refine and train your ear, and make informed and creative jazz vocabulary attainable in your playing. Get better at jazz-for real this time.
Download or read book Connecting Pentatonic Patterns written by Tom Kolb and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). If you've been finding yourself trapped in the pentatonic box, then Connecting Pentatonic Patterns is for you! This hands-on instructional book with audio offers examples for guitar players of all levels, from beginner to advanced. The only prerequisites are a basic understanding of the minor pentatonic scale and a desire to expand your fretboard horizons. Study this book faithfully, and soon you'll be soloing all over the neck with the greatest of ease. Includes audio demonstrations of every example in the book, plus jam tracks for practicing!
Download or read book Essential Scales for Electric Bass written by Max Palermo and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scales are one of the foundations of good playing and Essential Scales for Electric Bass is a quick and simple guide for music students of all levels, specifically tackling this important topic. It is designed to help the bass player acquaint himself with using the scales as tools to expand his musical dimension. The book will help any bassist compose riffs and bass lines, enriching the sounds with new and diverse nuances to achieve personal objectives.
Download or read book Alternative Pentatonics written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I actually wrote this book as a practice guide for myself because I wanted a way to get different and outside sounds using pentatonic scales, as well as to improve my chops and have a huge variety of new sounds at my fingertips to play over the chords you see 90% of the time such as major/major7, minor/minor7, and dominant chords, among others. As well as being a scales book Alternative Pentatonics is also a method to practice improvising over common chords using uncommon groups of five notes. Five notes are somewhere between an arpeggio and a scale, as well as being the ideal number of notes to craft some really nice phrasing (in my opinion), as I’m sure you realized when you first learned your minor pentatonic scale and started jamming over a 12-bar blues. This book contains 28 new pentatonic scales divided into chord types so that you’ll know exactly what chords you can use them over. For the intermediate player: this book will give you plenty of new and interesting options for playing over common chords and force you out of standard pentatonic scales and/or the major scale modes. For the more advanced player: this book could be more about exploring possibilities than learning scale patterns; in fact, I would suggest that advanced players avoid even remembering the patterns in this book. Instead, they can be used to explore the improvisational terrain and find new sounds, then filed away in your subconscious and allowed to seep into your playing while you’re in the throes of improvisation. So, if you’re stuck in a soloing rut or are looking for new sounds, outside sounds, exotic sounds, or even a few downright weird sounds, this is the book for you.
Download or read book Serious Electric Bass written by Joel Di Bartolo and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bass basics, major scales and modes, harmonic and melodic minor scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and symmetric scales (whole tone and diminished). Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels.
Download or read book Bass Players To Know written by Ryan Madora and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the aspiring musician, knowing what to listen to is just as important as knowing what to play. Bass player and writer Ryan Madora provides the reader with exactly that--a guide to listening and learning from the greats. Shining the spotlight on players who are too often confined to the background, this book highlights the session aces, band members, and career musicians whose bass lines have permeated popular culture. Madora discusses the nuances of bass playing and the stylistic choices behind classic records, top-forty hits, and funky deep cuts. An invaluable resource for professionals and hobbyists alike, Bass Players To Know features players who have contributed to the evolution of the instrument, including Ray Brown, Jack Bruce, Cliff Burton, Duck Dunn, Louis Johnson, Edgar Meyer, Willie Weeks, and many others.
Download or read book The Bass Player s Warm Up written by Janek Gwizdala and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of your warm-up determines the success of your practice routine, and subsequently, how great of a player you can become. The Bass Player's Warm-Up puts the process of one of the world's best bassists right into your hands. Janek Gwizdala shares his personal exercises to prepare your fingers and mind for playing your instrument; whether it's setting up for a ten-minute maintenance session, or moments before walking on stage to a sold-out show. These warm-ups were written with every bassist in mind, so if you've just picked up the bass or have played your whole life, let The Bass Player's Warm-Up become your new method for greeting your instrument every day.
